Ruth Marvel, CEO at The Duke of Edinburgh's Award: Empowering Futures with Compare the Market

My Duvet Flip by Jack Parsons

Jack Parsons

Business, Careers

4.2 • 5 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ruth Marvel. My name is Mariel Trophysan. I'm the CEO of Future Federalism Award.
0:05.0	I am a gold DAV award holder and a former DAV young leader. We have over 370 stuff and nearly 38,000 volunteers.
0:17.0	And this is my do...
0:18.0	What is your invisible success?
0:20.0	Synthesial success? Synthesize of information and turning it into strategy. Connecting with people. People see me as a so-speed. That's awesome because human connectivity is part of what makes the world go around. You're a partner with Compare the Market. We're a partner of Compare the Market. So tell me a little bit about the partnership. And It's great to be partnering with a company which you really want to invest in young people.
0:40.3	What are your three top tips?
0:41.8	Do not look at failure as forever but it's a stepping stone.
0:44.8	If you doubt say yes.
0:46.2	Are you ready for my final question?
0:48.7	Yes.
0:50.0	What's your duvet flip? What gives you out of bed in the morning to flip the duvet?
1:02.0	Welcome to my duvet flip. How are you both? Pretty good, thank you.
1:03.0	How are you, Mary?
1:04.0	Good, thanks.
1:05.0	Feeling well. I'm so excited to hear about your... The first half is all around your career journeys and where as kind of
1:12.6	life taking you in your career to get to where you are today. So Ruth, I'm going to start
1:17.3	with you. Like the world of charity, you're now a CEO of a fantastic charity. Where did it
1:25.5	all begin for you in terms of work?
1:27.8	Well, it's interesting because I left uni,
1:31.5	and I didn't really know you could work for a charity.
1:34.7	So it was kind of all of the conversations about careers
1:37.0	and kind of things you might want to go.
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